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...Author. At 24, Evelyn Waugh proclaimed his unflagging aversion to 20th Century technological civilization in a learned, nostalgic study of those 19th Century enemies of technology, the Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti: His Life and Works). His dislike of the modern world and his satiric discernment of the kind of people who run and ruin it became grim in Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, two wickedly witty and iridescent novels which skewered a refined rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London...
Fiorello LaGuardia, taking exception to Winston Churchill's terming the principles of the Atlantic Charter "a guide, not a rule," gave out a scholarly admonition to his fellow statesman: "Winston, if I may use the language of, say, Shakespeare, or Shelley or Dante Gabriel Rossetti or other British classicists, please don't louse...
...dismissed the writings of Henry James as "honest scribble work and no more." After characterizing the early works of William Butler Yeats as "sheer nonsense," Macmillan's really went overboard and insisted that his works had no more enduring value than "Maeterlinck's . . . Ibsen's . . . or Rossetti...
...King's Highway; Christina Rossetti's somber In the Bleak Mid-Winter; a Negro spiritual, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord...
Greatest satirist of the Pre-Raphaelites is artist and author Sir Max Beerbohm. His Rossetti and His Circle gently caricatured the Brotherhood's esthetic antics, helped keep their memories green. Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer. Now something of a gaffer himself, Sir Max celebrated his 70th birthday last fortnight with London's Maximilian Society, a club formed and named in his honor...